The life of the average immigrant and undocumented individual is anything but easy or average as the transition to a new culture and country can bring many challenges and obstacles. Among the many dilemmas faced, one of the most prevalent and overlooked issues among this community is the lack of treatment and diagnosis of mental […]
COVID-19 struggles are not exclusive to any group or individual, this is a virus that affects everyone regardless of race, gender, age, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. The same extends out to the anxiousness and mentally draining emotions that this pandemic has brought out amongst our most vulnerable groups, specifically immigrants and DACA students. With pauses […]
What had originally started as a few cases in parts of the world, to becoming an ongoing phenomenon, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the functioning of our society. For those who have started their post-migration life in the United States, this means much more, as there is now a larger reliance on those in the […]
When making the journey to the United States, undocumented citizens are faced with pressing challenges that are beyond comprehension. Their main concern is coming to America in search of prosperity for themselves and their families, leaving no room to acknowledge the trauma and mentally draining circumstances of their arrival. Unfortunately, this results in difficulty in […]
The difficulties surrounding migration to the U.S. do not stop when you have reached your destination. Post-migration life has its own unique obstacles that often are a result of circumstances experienced during pre-migration and the migration process itself. Between fighting discrimination, gaining citizenship, adapting to a new culture and managing language barriers, the struggle to […]
The relationship between native places, identity, and one’s sense of home is becoming one of increased complexity as people migrate to further lands with significantly different cultures than the one they are brought up in. Global travel has allowed humans to connect with new people and places on a grander scale than ever before. In 2008, […]
Thousands of people around the world desperately wish to leave their homelands and travel to the United States for a variety of reasons. Often, their dreams for a new life parallel the motivations that caused the Pilgrims to leave their own homelands for America. Many who hope to escape war, persecution, famine and poverty believe […]
The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it will reject new applications for the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program despite a federal judge’s order earlier this month that new applicants should be given consideration. The judge’s order came after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that the Department of Homeland Security didn’t follow proper procedure […]
Immigrants have always represented a transfusion of human capital, dynamism, and creativity to the receiving country, despite heated political rhetoric to the contrary. Episodes of ecological disaster and civil war can cause entire populations to leave for another country to save their lives. More commonly, though, immigrants leave home because they make a voluntary decision […]
Given the heightened levels of anti-immigration sentiments permeating the United States over the past few years, Peoples of Color who also happen to be immigrants or who are children of immigrants are faced with yet another burden that researchers have called “acculturative stress”: an additional type of psychological stress that is faced by immigrants and […]
